‘This jarring discord of Nobility, this should ring of each other in the Court’
lithograph, coloured, print
Accession Number
NAM.1974-05-69-146-1
Description
‘This jarring discord of Nobility, this should ring of each other in the Court’. Coloured lithograph by Edmund Evans after Maj Thomas Strong Seccombe, 1880 (c). No 103 in the series, ‘Military Misreadings of Shakespeare’, published by George Routledge, 1880 (c). First proof in colours by Edmund Evans of one of the illustrations in Seccombe’s ‘Military Misreadings of Shakespeare’. Officers scuffling in the queue attending a levee, or formal reception, at St James’s Palace. The quote is taken from Shakespeare’s ‘Henry VI Part One’, Act 4 Scene 1, and is spoken by Exeter.
